By now, everyone knows The Frozen Sky <\/a><\/em>was self-published.\u00a0 That means it didn’t receive the benefit of a professional copy editor parsing through each and every sentence.\u00a0 The book did <\/em>receive the benefit of several professional writers providing their eyeballs.\u00a0 But this is how those conversations did not<\/em> go:<\/p>\n New York Times Bestselling Author: “Jeff, I really like this book.”<\/p>\n Jeff: “Wow.\u00a0 Thank you.”<\/p>\n NYTBA:\u00a0 “I’d be happy to endorse it<\/em>.\u00a0 The main character is great.\u00a0 Love the action.\u00a0 Love the aliens.\u00a0 There are also about ten typos you should fix.”<\/p>\n Jeff:\u00a0 “Yeah, would you please read through my 450-page manuscript again and tell me where they are?”<\/p>\n Aha ha ha.<\/p>\n Most of the gaffes are extra or missing words in sentences.\u00a0\u00a0 When I churn through my first draft, my fingers can’t always keep up with my brain.\u00a0 When I rewrite and edit, my brain can’t always keep up my fingers.\u00a0 If there’s an extra word, my brain ignores it.\u00a0 If there’s a missing word, my brain supplies it.\u00a0\u00a0 So.\u00a0 Here’s a new Name Game contest challenge.<\/p>\n Please email me at jeff@jverse.com<\/strong>.\u00a0 The first two people who can identify five or more gaffes in The Frozen Sky<\/a> will earn the right to name a future character after themselves or a friend.\u00a0 What I need is the meat of each gaffey sentence in order to locate ’em and kill ’em.<\/p>\n Here is one such mistake I’ve already identified:<\/p>\n “It might help them can make sense of us,” Koebsch said.<\/p>\n Obviously the word “can” can’t be there.<\/p>\n Who else can help me!?\u00a0 If you do, as your reward, you might find yourself inside Europa’s catacombs having your face ripped off by a freaky ice monster…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By now, everyone knows The Frozen Sky was self-published.\u00a0 That means it didn’t receive the benefit of a professional copy editor parsing through each and every sentence.\u00a0 The book did receive the benefit of several professional writers providing their eyeballs.\u00a0 But this is how those conversations did not go: New York Times Bestselling Author: “Jeff, … <\/p>\n